Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 21:05:13 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Jos Chrispijn <jos@webrz.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD9 - Fresh install (2) Message-ID: <20121013210513.80676821.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <5079ABFA.8050607@webrz.net> References: <5079ABFA.8050607@webrz.net>
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On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 19:59:22 +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote: > When setting up my 1TB harddisk for FreeBSD 9.0, I have some questions > about partioning: > I think of creating two partitions of 5Gb; one for the standard FreeBSD > file layour and a second one with a /backup slice on it. > Does this make sense? What exactly do you intend to backup (and why) onto a second partition on the same disk? Sure, it is possible to do so, but you should make yourself clear _what_ you want to do and why, then it will imply _how_ will do it the best way -- even though there might be more than one best way... :-) Also depending on your needs, 5GB may be too few to hold a full installation of OS and programs (even though I've managed to get a full 5.2 installation plus tons of programs on a 6 GB disk, with 50% of free space afterwards). What do you do with the remaining 900 GB of the disk? :-) Also, please make yourself familiar with the terminology of what a partitions and what a slice is, and see it in the proper context of MBR vs. GPT partitioning. If I take your use of the TT (termini technici) literally, you would have one partition containing everything rooted to /, and a second partition that contains the same. You would either manually have a backup mechanism from the 1st to the 2nd partition, or you could configure them in some automated mirroring mechanism. But I don't see a real use case when doing so on the _same_ disk. Still it would be possible, and it could even be helpful in some bad case scenario. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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